Parenting Class : sandhir + parth : harry potter inspired - Page 6

Sunlight poured into the bedroom, dancing, golden rays lighting upon the two figures lying sound asleep in the large bed. With a soft moan, the girl sat up, holding a hand in front of her eyes to shield them from the bright light.

"Morning already," she mumbled. "You'd think someone would have come and gotten me up. Letting me sleep in...Mom knows she's supposed to wake me." Removing her hand, Sanyukta glanced around the room, eyes widening in horror.

It was decorated in the familiar reds and golds of Pheonix, the quidditch field visible from her window. Like bricks, the reality of the day hit her. She wasn't at home. She was at Lawrenceville. She had classes. Like the Potions class that had started ten minutes ago.

"PPPARRRTHHH!" she screamed, jumping up from the bed, the little boy beside her starting with fright and looking at the girl with wide, dark eyes as she threw open her door and tore off down the hall. "PARRRTTTHHH!"

"What is it, sanyu?" the black haired boy muttered, exiting his room, and looking sleepily at sanyukta.

"WE'RE TEN MINUTES LATE TO POTIONS! WHY DIDN'T YOU GET ME UP?" she shrieked, eyes glinting angrily. "WE'RE GOING TO GET DETENTIONS AND LOSE POINTS FOR PHOENIX BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T GET OUT OF BED AND WAKE ME!"

"You didn't get me up either," Parth pointed out, attempting to remain calm despite the fact that he was probably going to be given detention for a month. "We're both equally at fault."

"THIS IS THE FIRST DAY! IT IS NOT GOING TO LOOK GOOD IF I SHOW UP LATE FOR CLASS ON THE FIRST DAY!"

A smile dawned upon Parth's face and he stood there, grinning at Sanyukta, only causing to make the girl even more furious.

"WHAT ARE YOU SMILING FOR! GO GET DRESSED ALREADY! WE HAVE TO GET THERE AS SOON AS WE CAN!"

"You forget what we have with us," snickered Parth.

"AND WHAT WOULD THAT BE?"

"RANDHIR," he answered simply, the name rolling off his tongue quite easily. 'I guess it's easier to call Shekhwat by his first name when he's a little kid... he doesn't act like a SHEKHWAT at all.'

The same smile came upon Sanyukta's face and she turned back to her room. "I'll meet you outside the portrait in a few minutes," she called over her shoulder, before disappearing into her room.

Randhir looked at the girl curiously, quite unnerved by the drastic mood change. "We're going to go visit Uncle Dan , okay Randhir ?" she said sweetly, plucking the boy off of the bed.

"Really? You mean it Sanyukta ?" The witch nodded. "Thank you so much!" he cried, throwing his arms around the girl's neck. "I can't wait to see him again!"

"Just one catch Randhir," Sanyukta said, setting the child down on his own bed. "When we get there, I need for you to pretend to be asleep, okay? And right after we finish Potions, we'll get you some breakfast."

"That's fine, but why do I have to pretend to be asleep? I want to see Uncle Dan!"

"Do you want to get me in trouble?"

"No..." he replied slowly.

"Then we can't let your uncle know we all slept in..."

The boy smirked, eyes lighting with mischief. "I understand," he laughed.

"Good. Now why don't you put these on," she said, handing randhir a set of clothes and a small robe, "and then go brush your teeth? Once you're ready we'll go."

Nodding, the boy took the offered clothes and sanyukta left the room to go get dressed herself. Entering the bathroom after changing into her robes, she saw radhir standing on a little stepstool next to the sink, washing his hands and humming to himself.

"What's that you're singing?" Sanyukta asked, picking up her toothbrush and beginning to scrub at her own teeth.

"Dobby told me that I should sing the alphabet three times when I was my hands and four times when I brush my teeth. But I don't get how I can sing if I have toothpaste in my mouth."

"You have to think the song while you brush," Sanyukta responded, now running a comb through the child's hair, the bangs falling to rest just above his eyebrows. "Did you say Dobby?" she queried after a second's thought, remembering him mentioning the said house elf the day before.

"Yes. He's the one who took care of me most of the time. I wonder what he's doing now," the boy wondered, a thoughtful look on his face.

Sanyukta inwardly laughed with glee. 'We could take randhir down to the kitchens to meet Dobby! Of course we'd have to make him believe Dobby was visiting the castle for some reason, but it would be nice for him to see someone he knows besides Vardhaan.

'

"Can we go visit Uncle dan?" Randhir asked, tugging on Sanyukta's robes impatiently.

"We're going, we're going," she laughed, scooping the boy into her arms. "Now remember, pretend you're asleep...once we've been in the room for a few minutes you can 'wake up.'"

Obediently, randhir closed his eyes and tucked his head into the crook of Sanyukta's arm, his face relaxed and arms hanging limply at his sides. Leaving the bathroom, Sanyukta slung her book bag over her shoulder and left through the portrait hole.

"You're running late," called Leviculus as sanyukta joined Parth and they set off down the hall at a steady pace. "Better hurry!"

"Is he still asleep?" Parth whispered, looking at the Falcon.

In answer, randhir cracked open one eye and Parth jumped in surprise. "He looked like he was asleep!" the boy exclaimed.

"You'd make a good actor," commented Sanyukta, smiling down at the child. Randhir smiled back before closing his eye again, once more the impression he was sleeping looking like the real thing.

The trio descended the stone steps leading down to the dungeons, a cold draft racing to greet them. "It's-c-colder then l-last year," chattered Parth, wrapping his arms around himself to keep warm.

"We s-should be b-better once w-we get by our c-cauldron," sanyukta chattered back, her teeth clacking loudly together. randhir didn't move a muscle, though he dug himself deeper into Sanyukta's arms.

A few minutes later they all stood before a large, formidable looking wooden door, a polished black handle shining faintly. Taking a deep breath, Sanyukta opened the door and let them all in.

Eyes immediately turned to face the small group, some Phoenix's holding pity while Falcon's narrowed maliciously. "Would one of you care to explain why you are twenty minutes late?" Vardhaan hissed, coming to stand before sanyukta .

"We're very sorry, Sir," she murmured, glancing down at randhir . "But Randhir didn't want to get up and we didn't really want to wake him...we finally ended up just brining him down."

sanyukta saw the man's eyes flicker with a glimmer of happiness as he looked down at his godson, but when his eyes met hers once more, they were endless tunnels of black. "I see," he said softly. "In that case, please take your seats although you will lose twenty points for arriving late."

Murmurs rose in the class before the Potions professor glared at the student body and they immediately fell silent. "As I was saying before we were interrupted," vardhaan continued, throwing a glance at parth and sanyukta , "a Sleeping Draught is not hard to make for the average student, but be sure to follow the directions exactly. Instructions are on the board. Copy them onto parchment before you begin."

sanyukta set randhir down on the child sized chair that miss tobin had put in every class, the boy thankfully remaining unresponsive to any of the movement, sanyukta's words firm in his ears.

Taking a quill from her large bag, the brunette began to copy down the instructions in flowing cursive, carefully dotting each 'i' and crossing each 't'. Next to her, parth scribbled down the words in scratchy print, the letters blurring together in his haste.

"Ready to start, Sanyukta ?" he asked softly, not wanting to attract Vardhaan's attention.

She looked up at him, surprise on her face. "You mean you finished copying the instructions already?" He held up his paper. "Then go gather the ingredients please," she said, "if you can read what they even are," she said under her breath as Parth squinted at his list.

A slight noise to her left made the girl turn to see Randhir slowly sitting up, his hands rubbing his eyes. "Good morning," he murmured, placing a hand over his mouth to hide the yawn. "Where are we?" he asked, looking around the rather dark room.

"Good morning to you too sleepyhead," sanyukta giggled, completely amazed at the boy's acting. "We're down in Potions..." Curious, the boy looked towards the front of the room, a large grin feeling his face as he caught sight of his uncle.

Sliding off of the chair he wove between cauldrons, students smiling warmly at the boy as he softly apologized for bumping into them. He was so much different from the stuck up jerk they normally had to put up worth, hard feelings had been dropped almost instantly. And of course the fact they wanted to see what happened when the boy reached his godfather.

Sneaking up behind the man, randhir tugged on the black robes, smiling cheerfully up at the face of his godfather as vardhaan turned around. "Good morning Uncle Van - Dan!" he bubbled, reaching his arms up towards the man.

"VAN DAN" god ! Parth raised an eyebrow towards sanyukta and the later merely giggled at the new name for their potion teacher .

Vardhan sighed, remembering what that meant. Bending down, he scooped his godson up in his arms, a bright flash illuminating the dully lit room, temporarily blinding everyone. The Potions master blinked several times, eyes lighting on sanyukta who smiled back innocently, the only one who wasn't dazed.

Just at that moment though, the door to the Potions room burst open again and one person entered.

"I'm sorry we're late Professor," said Luna bimberton . "But Vidushi didn't want to come."

"I DON'T WANNA GO TO THE STINKY CLASS!"

screamed a child, voice bouncing off the walls. Into the room came Sahil carrying a little girl in his arms, the child flailing and hitting her guardian.

Her hair hung loose, seeing as neither of her guardian knew how to fix it, and her robes were ripped in several places, the result of trying to pull them over her head. "Vidushi !" exclaimed Randhir happily from his perch in vardhaan's arms.

At once, the other Falcon stopped moving and turned to look at the front of the class. "Randhir ! Put me down you idiot!" sahil all but dropped her, the girl kicking him. "DON'T DROP ME YOU STUPID OAF!" sahil only glared, nursing himself .

Sweet once more, vidushi skipped up to the front of the room, students holding their breath to see what was going to happen now. Vardhaan gently lowered randhir to the ground and backed away, not wanting to be in range of the girl.

Both children stared at each other, black eyes meeting brown before suddenly vidushi launched herself at randhir, tackling the smaller boy in a hug. "Thank Merlin you're here, randhir ," she sobbed, tears streaming down her face as she continued to lie on top of the boy, arms wrapped around him in a hug.

"VIDUSHI...I...can't...breathe," randhir choked out, his attempts to push the girl off of him in vain.

"Oops, sorry ," she laughed, happy once more. She sat down on the floor next to him, randhir gingerly pushing himself up. "Do you have guardians too? Mine are really mean," she added, sticking her tongue out at loona and sahil . "They wouldn't fix my hair!"

"sanyukta could do your hair," randhir offered. "She's one of my guardians...she's really nice." Sanyukta blushed while vidushi smiled at the girl.

"Could you please? I don't like it down like this."

"Ummm, sure. Come over here." vidushi got off the floor and trotted over to the Phoenix , scrambling up into her lap and sitting perfectly still while sanyukta pulled it back into a braid.

randhir meanwhile crossed the room over to Loona and gave Sahil a hard solid kick "That's for being mean to Vidushi ! And this," he added, kicking them once more, "is for coming to class late."

The whole class burst into laughter, the red faced expressions loona and sahil were displaying from being hit by a five-year old quite funny. "Settle down, all of you," scolded Vardhaan . "Vidushi and Randhir , you can come sit over here by-"

Randhir took off and was by vardhaan's side a second later, smiling adoringly up at his godfather. "Can I stay by you Uncle Van dan ? I want to watch!"

A small smile tugged on vardhaan's face, and he picked his godson up, setting him down on his lap as he sat at his desk. "Well? What are you all looking at?" he demanded, all of the students watching him and randhir, smiles on their faces. "Get back to work!"

"Parth..can you start the potion? I have to finish Vidushi's hair...please don't mess anything up..."

"Sure," parth said agreeably, reaching for the dried spiders to put in.

Back at the front desk, randhir was twirling a small bottle of red goop in his hands curiously. "What's in here, Uncle van dan ?" he asked, unscrewing the cap.

"Jellied rat eyeballs," the man said, mouth turning up at the corners as randhir promptly dropped it, eyes widening in horror. Unfortunately for the falcon , the bottle had been unscrewed from the cap and the contents spilled out onto the boy's lap.

"AHHH!! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!!" randhir screamed, bouncing out of vardhaan 's lap and running around in circles, the mixture clinging to his robes.

"Accio randhir's robe!" sanyukta called out above the din of randhir crashing into shelves and potion ingredients spilling onto the floor. The garment flew over the boy's head and into sanyukta's hand,randhir stopping his wild running when he realized he no longer had the jellied eyeballs on him.

The whole room was deathly silent as randhir slowly approached vardhaan's desk, head hung down. "I'm sorry," he whispered, eyes fixed firmly on the ground. The thud of Vardhaan's footfalls made the child quiver, though he remained standing.

Kneeling down on the floor before randhir, vardhaan pulled the boy into his arms. "I'm not mad at you, randhir," he murmured, tilting the boy's chin up so he was forced to look at the man's eyes. "Just an accident."

"Don't punish sanyukta or parth," randhir begged, "it wasn't their fault either." That had been the exact thought running in vardhaan's mind, but he bit it off. He wasn't going to punish the people who were watching his godson. And strangely enough, it appeared sanyukta seemed to care about the boy quite a bit.

"I won't." Several students gasped, astonishment clear on their faces. vardhaan not punishing ? Hell must have frozen over... Turning to the class, vardhaan said, "leave the potions for the day and please pick up the spilled potions. We'll finish this lesson on Thursday."

"Did I just hear vardhaan right?" catania murmured to sanyukta , bending down to pick up a still sealed bottle. "He said please...and he didn't punish either you or parth."

"Randhir's a good influence on him," Sanyukta smiled. "And since he asked vardhaan couldn't really punish us...his godson would be devastated."

"Can't believe I'm going to say this but...I wish I had Shekhwat as my charge. terry is a little pain in the," -Sanyukta glared at her, -"neck," catania finished quickly. "I swear, I'm seriously going to be in the Hospital wing for part of this time. she's a little horror!"

"Randhir's a unique child," said sanyukta. "His mood can change rather quickly..."

"I still think vidushi beats all mood swings," said loona , coming into the conversation. "She's as bossy as my gran! And she's five! Keeps going on an on about how sahil and I aren't eating with proper manners and then she swichtes to crying because her potatoes got cold, and then she goes to laughing when sahil stabs his hand with his fork! He got sent up to the hospital wing last night for emergency care," loona added.

"Poor him,"sanyukta murmured sympathetically, giving the lanky boy a hug. "She really is a sweet girl...said thank you to me when I finished braiding her hair."

"Think you could teach me? Being kicked does not feel good...and shekhwat's got a pretty hard kick too!" sahil said .

"Look at this," sanyukta said, rolling up her arm sleeve. A small set of teeth marks were embedded in her arm. "randhir bit me last night cuz he didn't want to take a bath!"

"sahil has a similar mark too," chuckled loona . "That girl refused to take a bath...so she's getting one tonight whether she likes it or not. Say! Could we drop her off with you? Maybe you could gentle her out for one night? Please ?"

"What do you say Parth?" sanyukta asked, turning to her partner. "She could even play with randhir while we did our homework!"

"I guess so..."

"Great!" said lonna enthusiastically. "You can bring her back with you after dinner and then sahil or I will come pick her up...where's your portrait?"

"Down the charms corridor behind the portrait of the jester. He'll let us know you're there, just let him know you're there to pick up Vidushi . Oh, his name is Leviculus! He likes to be addressed..."

"Gotcha," said loona . "Thanks so much,sanyu!" she gave the girl a kiss on the cheek and then went back to cleaning, sanyukta smiling her pleasure. Several minutes later the room was clean, all the broken ingredients having been thrown out.

"For the remainder of the hour, read chapter one of your Potions Guide," instructed vardhaan , catching himself from saying please. It seemed having his godson around was beginning to run off on him...

"What are you doing, Uncle van dan ?" randhir asked, peering into the cauldron vardhaan was brewing a potion.

"Creating a batch of Dreamless Sleep Potions for Madam Pomfrey," he replied, stirring the cauldron in slow, steady strokes.

"Can we help?" asked Vidushi , clambering up on a stool next to Randhir . These were the only two children who even had the nerve to get so close to the scary looking man. Terry was quite content to sit between his guardians, occasionally pinching jiggy and laughing softly to himself, an innocent expression on his face when ever catania would look over at him.

"It would be best if you just watched," said vardhaan , watching the potion bubble.

"Can't we just put in one ingredient, Uncle van dan ?"

Semi-reluctantly, vardhaan handed vidushi a jar of dried cockroaches. "Dump those in," he ordered fear for himself, the girl, and his potion brewing. But the bugs were put in safely, no bad things happening.

"Now Randhir , put in the seagull feather," vardhaan said, feeling slightly light-hearted that nothing had gone wrong. The boy leaned over on his stool, the legs of the stool picking up off of the ground.

The feather had almost made it over the rim when the chair buckled from beneath him. SPLASH! randhir fell headlong into the cauldron with the feather, several students crying out in alarm.

vardhaan plunged his arms into the bubbling liquid and came out with randhir . Quickly, he checked for a pulse, relieved to find one. "Is he okay?" sanyukta asked worriedly, fluttering next to the limp child.

"He'll be just fine," growled vardhaan ... "might sleep for a few days, but he'll be perfectly fine." sanyukta looked up at him, open mouthed while parth chuckled.

"Looks like our job just got easier."

Author's Notes:

I seriously hope that was lighter then the previous chapter! I'm already planning next part! lol I've been oversleeping a lot lately so I guess that's where sanyukta got thrown in.

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